animals

Robots and foxes and bears, oh my…

I really must update this blog more often – it’s not that she’s stopped saying entertaining things, it’s more a case of me being tired and overworked. But a conversation earlier this evening definitely merits a post… We had been talking about various things Minecraft-related, and when I happened to mention one of the new […]

Caturday night

Come evening of the same day that she came up with tracking-chip-airplane-laser-volcano solution to the African imports store going out of business, I was tucking her into bed, and Rosalind, her favourite of my two cats, jumped up on the bed for a cuddle. “Awww… Rosie’s here to sleep with me!” she said as she […]

Spider-cam

Yesterday, coming in the back gate with Little A, I put my hand over the gate to unlatch it and discovered the hard way that the latch was covered with spider webs. Again. Me (wiping webs off my hands): “Aaaagh! Yuck! I keep clearing the spider webs off, but the damn spider keeps rebuilding them. […]

Cat defense system

In other news, I have engaged Little A in the project of planning a Cat Defense System for the garden (because the one of my cats who insists on going outside keeps mistaking it for a litterbox). Her ideas involve a homemade motion sensor, which she apparently intends to have her uncle Scott help her […]